We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We worship God through our questions.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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