Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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