Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIndeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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