Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worship God through our questions.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Every little deed counts.
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