However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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To be is to stand for.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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