I am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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