To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThis 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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