Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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