We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIs not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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