Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Loyal 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 .
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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