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 HESCHELCelebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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We worship God through our questions.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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 dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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