Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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