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• Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics. To us a single act of injustice--cheating in business, exploitation of the poor--is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

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  Cheating, Israel, People

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1969). “The Prophets”

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• Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

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  Meaningful, Life Is, Ends

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• When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

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  Compassion, Names, Voice

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.4, Macmillan

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• How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

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  Men, Miracle, Earth

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.112, Stanford University Press

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• Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

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  Guilty, Responsible

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1986). “The Wisdom of Heschel”, p.284, Macmillan

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• (People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

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  People, Care, Fellowship

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• People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

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  Spiritual, Mean, Maturity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1986). “The Wisdom of Heschel”, p.114, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

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  Appreciation, Civilization, Mind

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.46, Macmillan

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• We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

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  Light, Darkness, Peers

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.140, Macmillan

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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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  Art, Prayer, Training

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.260, Macmillan

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• The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?

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  Men, Doe, He Man

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• Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

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  Demand, Remember, Imperatives

  "Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1997.

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• You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

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  Art, Works Of Art, Ifs

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

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  Men, Servant Of God, Earth

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.157, Macmillan

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• The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

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  Loyalty, Religious, Tolerance

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.242, Macmillan

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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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  Men, Essence, Able

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• It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

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  Freedom, Goal, Being Free

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.18, Macmillan

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• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

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  Light, Self, Darkness

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.75, Macmillan

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• We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

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  Spiritual, Long, Audacity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

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  Light, World, Way

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• (People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.

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  People, Fulfillment, Humans

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• Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

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  Wonder, Fame, Asks

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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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  Prayer, Home, Self

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.258, Macmillan

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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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  Prayer, Self, Different

  "Man's Quest For God: Studies In Prayer And Symbolism". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, p. 7, 1954.

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• Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

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  Men, Messengers, Messages

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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