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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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
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Warszawa
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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