The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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