To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHowever, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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