Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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