We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThen comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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