Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Abyss Bottom Confine Discovered Heart Human Infinite
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single
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Our 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
The awe of God is wisdom.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Awe Destiny Future God Good Luck Rule Wisdom
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Church Deal God Great Problem Provoking Sometimes Worry
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amass Face Goal Healing Higher Moment Scared Spiritual Wealth
Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Common Eternal Feel Passing Rush Stillness Ultimate
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer New Query Question Rise
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Become Company Ineffable Part Word
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Answering Ask Encompass Enough Know Querry Questions Want
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Encouragement God Love Man Person Religious Suffer Time
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dependance Explanation Idea Nonanalogous Self Sufficiency Term Unprecedented
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Encounter Narcissistic Originate Power Self Self Indulgent Thinking Ultimately
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Done Essence Good Prize Reward Sake Virtue
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Doe Mean Serve Share Surrender
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dimension Essential Immutable Majesty Supreme Time
To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Common Eternal Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Anger Buddhist Ceased Changing Controversy Life Striving Truth

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