It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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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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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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