Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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 us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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