But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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