It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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