To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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 self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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