It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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