The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of 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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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To be is to stand for.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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