There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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