Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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