feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELInstead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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 worship God through our questions.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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