Heart Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

8 Heart quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Heschel’s reflections lift the heart into the realm of the divine, each insight a quiet prayer. The short selection offers a contemplative space for spiritual seekers.

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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish…

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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…

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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…

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an…

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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which…

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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its…

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

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“The primitive mind finds it hard to realize an idea without the aid of imagination, and it is the realm of space where imagination…

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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.

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“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness…

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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active…

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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

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“Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful…

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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality…

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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

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“What seems to be a stone is a drama.”

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Prayer begins where our power ends.

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The awe of God is wisdom.

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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind…

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