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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Audacity Forfeit God Hour Humiliate Long Moral Negroes Right Spiritual
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Contempt Far Kingdom Man Peril Plain Retain Share Task War
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Faith Gardener Lord Mankind May Plant Sacred Secret Upland
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Audacity Call Grandeur Hour Moral Spiritual
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
To be is to stand for.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Be Nature Positive Power Raise Stand To Voice
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
Every little deed counts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Count Deed Everything Little Responsibility Saving Success
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Day Interlude Passion Sabbath Sake Week Weekday
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
I am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Blessing Faith Gratitude Holy Life
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Combine Faced Loyalty Religious Tolerance Tradition

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