The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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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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