When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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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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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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