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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
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Warszawa
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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