Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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