It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI am commanded therefore I am.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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