Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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