Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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