Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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