The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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