Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFriendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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