Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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