A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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