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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJust to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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Each 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.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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