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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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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 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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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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