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 HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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