A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEvery little deed counts.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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