There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA soul can create only when alone.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Every little deed counts.
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