Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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