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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression being points beyond itself may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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