I am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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