I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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