Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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