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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
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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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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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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