When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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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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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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