We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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