Every little deed counts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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