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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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