There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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