All action is vicarious faith.
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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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