The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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