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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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