Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELKnowledge-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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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We worship God through our questions.
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