A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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 is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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We worship God through our questions.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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