Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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