When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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