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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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