We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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