Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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 utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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 test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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