Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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