Every little deed counts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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