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 HESCHELFaith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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 rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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