When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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All action is vicarious faith.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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