Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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