It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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.
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