Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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