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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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
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Warszawa
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression being points beyond itself may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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