The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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