We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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