This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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To be is to stand for.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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