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Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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
Abraham Heschel
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
All action is vicarious faith.
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