To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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