Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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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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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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.
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