Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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