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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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All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain 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 worship God through our questions.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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