How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA 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.
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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A soul can create only when alone.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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