I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThose of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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