To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Remember 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.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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