What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe awe of God is wisdom.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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