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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To be is to stand for.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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