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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELDear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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