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 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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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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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Every little deed counts.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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