To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOnly in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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