In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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