The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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