Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLife is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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