New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIndeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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To be is to stand for.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant 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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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