The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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