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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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