Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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