It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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