The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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