Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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You never know how much time you got.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.
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My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
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He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
