People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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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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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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