Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Every little deed counts.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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