All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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