Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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