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Abraham Joshua Heschel Inspirational Quotes (158)

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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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We worship God through our questions.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
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Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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