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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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