All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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