When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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