To be is to stand for.
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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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