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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
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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Warszawa
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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To be is to stand for.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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