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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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