Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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