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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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
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Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself unless it is of value to someone else.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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To be is to stand for.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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