Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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Every little deed counts.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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