In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Every little deed counts.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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.
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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. …
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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