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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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To be is to stand for.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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