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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
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Warszawa
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but 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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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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