Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen we pray, we bring G-d into the world
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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