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 HESCHELAudacious 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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