The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELKnowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Every little deed counts.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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