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. Abraham Joshua Heschel More Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel More Quotes From Abraham Joshua Heschel (People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others. Abraham Joshua Heschel fellowship care people One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created. Abraham Joshua Heschel our-world broken prayer We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments. Abraham Joshua Heschel frustration disappointment world The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. Abraham Joshua Heschel saint tests love-is It is gratefulness which makes the soul great. Abraham Joshua Heschel gratefulness soul 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. Abraham Joshua Heschel peers light darkness Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. Abraham Joshua Heschel treats incredibles spiritual There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live. Abraham Joshua Heschel training prayer art We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state. Abraham Joshua Heschel thought-provoking church worry Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. ... to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe. Abraham Joshua Heschel intuition analysis simple Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed. Abraham Joshua Heschel speech deeds sound 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. Abraham Joshua Heschel encouragement religious love A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion. Abraham Joshua Heschel passion religious men There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. Abraham Joshua Heschel space goal giving When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying. Abraham Joshua Heschel legs kings prayer There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired. Abraham Joshua Heschel use appreciation two The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved. Abraham Joshua Heschel prayer song men In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. Abraham Joshua Heschel buddhist life-changing truth The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity Abraham Joshua Heschel suffering humanity people Few are guilty, but all are responsible. Abraham Joshua Heschel responsible guilty
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