Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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