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Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.”

151. “The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.”

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Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “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. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?”

152. “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. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.”

153. “All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “There are dead thoughts and there are living thoughts. A dead thought has been compared to a stone which one may plant in the soil. Nothing will come out. A living thought is like a seed. In the process of thinking, an answer without a question is devoid of life. It may enter the mind; it will not penetrate the soul. It may become a part of one’s knowledge; it will not come forth as a creative force.”

154. “There are dead thoughts and there are living thoughts. A dead thought has been compared to a stone which one may plant in the soil. Nothing will come out. A living thought is like a seed. In the process of thinking, an answer without a question is devoid of life. It may enter the mind; it will not penetrate the soul. It may become a part of one’s knowledge; it will not come forth as a creative force.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.”

155. “We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “One may observe all the laws and still be practicing a disguised polytheism. For if in performing a religious act one’s intention is to please a human being whom he fears or from whom he hopes to receive benefit, then it is not God whom he worships but a human being.”

156. “One may observe all the laws and still be practicing a disguised polytheism. For if in performing a religious act one’s intention is to please a human being whom he fears or from whom he hopes to receive benefit, then it is not God whom he worships but a human being.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “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.”

157. “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.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may.”

158. “The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method.”

159. “Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.”

160. “Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.”

161. “Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.”

162. “Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “For the pious person, destiny means not simply to accomplish, but to contribute.”

163. “For the pious person, destiny means not simply to accomplish, but to contribute.”

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Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “This was a religious problem, my father felt; people can want to be deceived. Do not deceive, the Kotzker rebbe insisted, and that also means do not deceive oneself by being gullible.”

164. “This was a religious problem, my father felt; people can want to be deceived. Do not deceive, the Kotzker rebbe insisted, and that also means do not deceive oneself by being gullible.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “The words of the Bible are sources of spirit. They carry fire to the soul and evoke our lost dignity out of our hidden origins. Illumined, we suddenly remember, we suddenly recover the strength of endless longing to sense eternity in time.”

165. “The words of the Bible are sources of spirit. They carry fire to the soul and evoke our lost dignity out of our hidden origins. Illumined, we suddenly remember, we suddenly recover the strength of endless longing to sense eternity in time.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.”

166. “Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature. One attitude is alien to his spirit: taking things for granted, regarding events as a natural course of things.”

167. “Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature. One attitude is alien to his spirit: taking things for granted, regarding events as a natural course of things.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.”

168. “Creative thinking is not stimulated by vicarious issues but by personal problems.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.”

169. “A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.”

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Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living person to a diagram.”

170. “To try to distill the Bible, which is bursting with life, drama, and tension, to a series of principles would be like trying to reduce a living person to a diagram.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man’s abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.”

171. “The Bible is the perpetual motion of the spirit, an ocean of meaning, its waves beating against man’s abrupt and steep shortcomings, its echo reaching into the blind alleys of his wrestling with despair.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advance.”

172. “Theology starts with dogmas, philosophy begins with problems. Philosophy sees the problem first, theology has the answer in advance.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.”

173. “There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel Quote: “Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.”

174. “Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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