We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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