At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAcceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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 must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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