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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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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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Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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 tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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