Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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