Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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We worship God through our questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL