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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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