When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Every little deed counts.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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In 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.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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