Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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