We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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