That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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