Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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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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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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