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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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
Serve
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Surrender
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information but only for want of appreciation.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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