Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Every little deed counts.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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 problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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