Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSolitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Human 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.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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