People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of 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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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