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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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Littles
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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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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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, 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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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