The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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