To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLife is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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 course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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