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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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