Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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