To be is to stand for.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAudacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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