Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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