In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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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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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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