There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
More Quotes By Abraham Joshua Heschel
- The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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- A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children....
- When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today...
- Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at...
- …morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings,...
- For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not...
- We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
- Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of...
- Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
- Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but...
- Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all,...
- Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of...
- In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
- When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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