And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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