to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEach 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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