One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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