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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.
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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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