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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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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 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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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