Quotes about Connection
I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
— AA Milne
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
— AA Milne
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.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is a word that is seldom said, a word for an emotion almost too deep to be expressed: the love of the Sabbath.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Just as the Shechinah is in exile, so is the Torah in exile.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is not we who long for a day of rest, but the Sabbath spirit that is lonely and longs for us.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel