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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELKnowledge-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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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