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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
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Warszawa
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
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All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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