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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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