The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradit…

Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.242, Macmillan
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). A Passion for Truth, p.85, Macmillan
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). Insecurity of Freedom, p.260, Macmillan
I am commanded therefore I am.
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 (1976). God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Ju … ▶

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.242, Macmillan

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