Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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