Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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
-
-
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL