The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAt all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We worship God through our questions.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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