We worship God through our questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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