It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Every little deed counts.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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