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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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To be is to stand for.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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