New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be is to stand for.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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