We worship God through our questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI am commanded therefore I am.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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