When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIs not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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