It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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