God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Every little deed counts.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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