For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To be is to stand for.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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