Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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This 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.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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