I am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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