There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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