Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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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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