(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others. Abraham Joshua Heschel More Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel More Quotes From Abraham Joshua Heschel 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. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. Abraham Joshua Heschel spiritual morning life ...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. Abraham Joshua Heschel limits suffering evil 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; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. Abraham Joshua Heschel compassion names past Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all. Abraham Joshua Heschel dear-lord grace numbers For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying. Abraham Joshua Heschel legs prayer song In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible. Abraham Joshua Heschel responsible guilty terrible We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. Abraham Joshua Heschel asking-questions asking thinking Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. 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 Heschel hatred pyramids prayer Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art. Abraham Joshua Heschel deeds remember art 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. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world. Abraham Joshua Heschel six space trying Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. Abraham Joshua Heschel bridges prayer heart Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. Abraham Joshua Heschel simple common world Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. Abraham Joshua Heschel hatred racism men Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. Abraham Joshua Heschel silent indifference evil A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Abraham Joshua Heschel tyrants children people People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. 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.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel appreciation giving people Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. 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. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives. Abraham Joshua Heschel waiting heart song The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference. Abraham Joshua Heschel indifference evil opposites God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake. Abraham Joshua Heschel uncles nice god When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel bullying clever kindness
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