However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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