By the word of God the world was created.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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To be is to stand for.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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