God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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