Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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