Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other 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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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