Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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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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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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