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 HESCHELMankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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