Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJust to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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