There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEvery little deed counts.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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