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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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More quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
All action is vicarious faith.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
