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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
Awe
Wisdom
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Every little deed counts.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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We do not step out of the world when we pray we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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