We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEach day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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 abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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