All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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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.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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