There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELKnowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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