To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNew insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Every little deed counts.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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