I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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 anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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