The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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