All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To be is to stand for.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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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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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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