I am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLife without commitment is not worth living.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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