Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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