A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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