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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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Earth
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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
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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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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It is not enough for me to ask question I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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