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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
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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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
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.
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Leg Lip March Montgomery Prayer Selma Song Walking
A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand
Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Alert Greed Heart Jealousy Man Relishing Stillness
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Agree Consciousness Knowing Man Normal Real Responsiveness Sensibility State Stupor Wholly
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Affection Care Culture Gold Helpless Incurable Old
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Acceptance Appreciate Appreciation High Seem Value
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
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.
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Applauding Bible Civilization Complacency Emotion Knives Positive Quote Slashing Voice
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Analysis Dignity Intuition Realization Simple Stand

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