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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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
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University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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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 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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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