The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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