Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To be is to stand for.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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