What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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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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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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