Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBy the word of God the world was created.
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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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