People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLoyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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