to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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