Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTrust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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