God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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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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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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