People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe task of life is to face sacred moments.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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