BOOKS: Man is Not Alone by Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man Is Not Alone : A Philosophy of Religion by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Some Quotes:

pg. 89  "The greatest obstacle to faith is the inclination to be content with half-truths and half-realities."

pg. 90  "It is not an attitude of detachment from reality, of passive absorption or of self-annihilation, but rather the ability to witness the holy within this world's affairs, and to entertain a feeling of shame and discontent with living without faith, without responsiveness to the holy."

pg. 90  "By foregoing beauty for goodness, power for love, grief for gratitude, by entreating the Lord for help to understand our hopes, for strength to resist our fears, we may receive a gentle sense of the holiness permeating the air like a strangeness that cannot be removed. Our crying out of pitfalls of self-indulgence for purity of devotion will prepare the dawn of faith."

pg. 91  "Responsiveness to God cannot be copied; it must be original with every soul."

pg. 92  "God is not an explanation of the world's enigmas or a guarantee for our salvation. He is an eternal challenge, an urgent demand. He is not a problem to be solved but a question addressed to us as individuals, as nations, as mankind."

pg. 98  "We are driven to know God in order to conform to His ways."

pg. 108  "God cannot be distilled to a well-defined idea. All concepts fade when applied to His essence."

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