There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The 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.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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