When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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