But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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