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 HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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