The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAt all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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 can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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