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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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