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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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We worship God through our questions.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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