What of the Night?
I Asked for Wonder, A Spiritual Anthology from Abraham Joshua Heschel's writings (Page 65):
What of the Night?
This is a time to cry out.
One is ashamed to be human. One is embarrassed to be called religious in face of religion's failure to keep alive the image of God in the face of man....We have imprisoned God in our temples and slogans, and now the word of God is dying on our lips.
There is darkness in the East, and smugness in the West.
What of the night?
What of the night?
What of the Night?
This is a time to cry out.
One is ashamed to be human. One is embarrassed to be called religious in face of religion's failure to keep alive the image of God in the face of man....We have imprisoned God in our temples and slogans, and now the word of God is dying on our lips.
There is darkness in the East, and smugness in the West.
What of the night?
What of the night?