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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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