Every little deed counts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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To be is to stand for.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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