Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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