To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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