Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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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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