Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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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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