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 HESCHELSpeech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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