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Abraham Joshua Heschel Inspirational Quotes (158)

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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, 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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. 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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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 awe of God is wisdom.
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