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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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