Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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