The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELCelebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Every little deed counts.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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