The task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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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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