We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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 be is to stand for.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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