The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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