Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSolitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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 pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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