God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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