Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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