It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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 world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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