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We worship God through our questions.
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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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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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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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