Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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