Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Every little deed counts.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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