People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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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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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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