to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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 beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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