It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAnd 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To be is to stand for.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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