The task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI am commanded therefore I am.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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