God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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To be is to stand for.
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