There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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