Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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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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