What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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