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Quotes from Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy Of Religion — Abraham Joshua Heschel

1907–1972 Poland

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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor, his life for love, knowing that contentment is the shadow not the light. The great yearning that sweeps eternity is a yearning to praise, a yearning to serve.

Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy Of Religion (1951)

The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is no cry for eternal life prior to our descending to the grave.

Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy Of Religion (1951)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abraham Joshua Heschel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.