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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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