We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpeech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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