New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRemember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
-
-
Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
I am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
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 HESCHEL -
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL