At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThat man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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