To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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