Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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 essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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