To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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