When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELYet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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