Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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