There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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