Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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