When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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