I am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHow embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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 not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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 road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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