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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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 may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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