Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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