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.
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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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