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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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