The 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTrust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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