Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA soul can create only when alone.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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