There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThose who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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