Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELYou must build your life as if it were a work of art.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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 utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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