A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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