Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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