Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHuman being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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