God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod 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.
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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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