All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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