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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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