Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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To be is to stand for.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL