Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTrust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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