The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIs not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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