To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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 beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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