To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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