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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
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of 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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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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