It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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