All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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