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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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
Abraham Heschel
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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