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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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