Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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