Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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We worship God through our questions.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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