Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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