A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe awe of God is wisdom.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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