To be is to stand for.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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