Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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