However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFriendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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