I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThen comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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