Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA soul can create only when alone.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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 course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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