Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHe who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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