God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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