Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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