Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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We worship God through our questions.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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