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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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