The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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 world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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