Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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 .
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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