The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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 road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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