We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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