It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThose 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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