(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be is to stand for.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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