The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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