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Joshua Inspirational Quotes (710)

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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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