In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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To be is to stand for.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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