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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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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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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
We worship God through our questions.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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...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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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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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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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