Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpeech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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