Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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