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The awe of God is wisdom.

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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Wisdom

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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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A soul can create only when alone.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.
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