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 HESCHELTo answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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