The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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