At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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