New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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