Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwareness of the divine begins with wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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