Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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