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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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