I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwareness of the divine begins with wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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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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