Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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• Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

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• Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

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• The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments

  Source: The Sabbath (1951) p. 6

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• The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

  Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333

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• The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

  Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

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• The stone is broken, but the words are alive.

  Source: The Zookeepers Wife (2008)

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• There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  Source: The Sabbath (1951) p. 3

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• 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.

  Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 332

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

  Source: Who Is Man? (1965)

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• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

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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.

  Source: Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (16 June 1963)

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• When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

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• Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

  Source: Who Is Man? (1965)

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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.

  Source: Insecurity of Freedom

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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-consciousness
• self-surrender
• confrontation
• ultimately
• originates
• transcends

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