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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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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.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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