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To be spiritual is to be amazed.

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
Amazed
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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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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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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.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information but only for want of appreciation.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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