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 HESCHELThose 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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