The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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 meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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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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