Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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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.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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