Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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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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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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