We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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