All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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