Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worship God through our questions.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Every little deed counts.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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