It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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