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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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 essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself unless it is of value to someone else.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
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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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