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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
Deeds
Littles
Little
Every
Deed
Counts

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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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It is not enough for me to ask question I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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