(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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