To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFew are guilty, but all are responsible.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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