Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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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