Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Past, Compassion, Names

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

• Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Light, World, Way

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

• 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. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Song, Prayer, Legs

• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Civilization, Worship, Skyscraper

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.23, Macmillan

• 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 Heschel

  Spiritual, Long, Audacity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

• The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Rejection, Arrogance, Worship

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.20, Macmillan

• We worship God through our questions.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Worship, Worship God

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