Then 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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 work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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