The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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