Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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