Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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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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