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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
I am commanded therefore I am.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
All action is vicarious faith.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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