Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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