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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
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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 idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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