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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

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
Heart
Shrine
Shrines
Pilgrimage
Clinging
Endless
Faith

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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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