What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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