It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Every little deed counts.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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