Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To be is to stand for.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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