Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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