The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEach day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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We worship God through our questions.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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