For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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