Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELProximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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 true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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