Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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