Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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By the word of God the world was created.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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