Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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 never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Every little deed counts.
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