We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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