Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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 worship God through our questions.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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To be is to stand for.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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