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 HESCHELSpiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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