This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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