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
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFew are guilty, but all are responsible.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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To be is to stand for.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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