The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Every little deed counts.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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