Wisdom Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

9 Wisdom quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel’s nine short reflections on wisdom carry his deep spiritual insight. Each line offers a gentle invitation to seek meaning beyond the ordinary.

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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

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The awe of God is wisdom.

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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and…

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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not…

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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be…

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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…

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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion.…

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“The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious…

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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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