There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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.
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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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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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