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 HeschelIt is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
Abraham Joshua HeschelIt is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
Abraham Joshua HeschelRacism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
Abraham Joshua Heschel