Every little deed counts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRemember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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