The awe of God is wisdom.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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