Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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