Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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To be is to stand for.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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