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 HESCHELAll that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
-
-
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
In 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL