God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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