We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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