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;
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHuman being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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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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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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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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