Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLoyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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