We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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