Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We worship God through our questions.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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