All action is vicarious faith.
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More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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