To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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