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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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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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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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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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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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