We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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