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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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