The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“There is a word that is seldom said, a word for an emotion almost too deep to be expressed: the love of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Unless one learns how to relish the taste of Sabbath … one will be unable to enjoy the taste of eternity in… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The Sabbath is the presence of God in the world, open to the soul of man.” God is not in things of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The Jewish contribution to the idea of love is the conception of love of the Sabbath, the love of a day, of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The Sabbath is a reminder of the two worlds—this world and the world to come; it is an example of both worlds.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The Sabbath is the most precious present mankind has received from the treasure house of God. All week we think: The spirit… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Sanctifying the Sabbath is part of our imitation of God, but it also becomes a way to find God’s presence. It is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Call the Sabbath a delight: 13 a delight to the soul and a delight to the body. Since there are so many… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“the Sabbath is entirely independent of the month and unrelated to the moon.11 Its date is not determined by any event in… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The primitive mind finds it hard to realize an idea without the aid of imagination, and it is the realm of space where imagination… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
“Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
