Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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