It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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