Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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