God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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