All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI am commanded therefore I am.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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