Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe awe of God is wisdom.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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 essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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