In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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