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 HeschelWonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
Abraham Joshua HeschelSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAwe 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 HeschelEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Abraham Joshua Heschel