Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Every little deed counts.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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