Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be is to stand for.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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