The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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To be is to stand for.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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