Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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