Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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