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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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To be is to stand for.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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