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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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University Teacher
Warszawa
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
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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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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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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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