Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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In 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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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