Abraham Joshua Heschel on amazement
Abraham Joshua Heschel232 quotes“Our 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.”
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To be is to stand for.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Every little deed counts.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel 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.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving
Jim MorrisonJim Morrison The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
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