All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJust to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To be is to stand for.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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