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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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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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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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