To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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