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 HESCHELMankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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