New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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