The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Every little deed counts.
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