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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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