Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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We worship God through our questions.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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