Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFew are guilty, but all are responsible.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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