Every little deed counts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Knowledge-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.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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