A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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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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To be is to stand for.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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