There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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