Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
Power
Self
Originates
Thinking
Indulgent
Narcissistic
World
Encounter
Authentic
Encounters
Ultimately
More quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself unless it is of value to someone else.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
