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 HESCHELSometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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