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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
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Warszawa
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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