We 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
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Abraham Joshua Heschel232 quotes“We 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.”
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel 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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Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Life without commitment is not worth living.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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