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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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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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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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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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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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We worship God through our questions.
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