God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFew are guilty, but all are responsible.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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