Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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