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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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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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