In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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