The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTime is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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To be is to stand for.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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