Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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