When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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 task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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