As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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