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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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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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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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