Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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