New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA soul can create only when alone.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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 an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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