We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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