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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 Heschel

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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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