The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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