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 HESCHELIt is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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