But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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