Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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