All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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