How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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