Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELYou must build your life as if it were a work of art.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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