The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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