The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpeech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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 achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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