Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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