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• Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

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  Faith, Religious, Attitude

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.45, Macmillan

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• We worship God through our questions.

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  Worship, Worship God

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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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  Spiritual, Integrity, Enjoy Life

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.209, Macmillan

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• Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

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  Art, Philosophy, Giving

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• In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

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  Prayer, Self, Consciousness

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.342, Macmillan

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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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  Civilization, Worship, Skyscraper

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.23, Macmillan

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• The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

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  Future, Writing, Life Is

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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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  Essence, Done, Rewards

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.374, Macmillan

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• The awe of God is wisdom.

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  Awe

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• All action is vicarious faith.

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  Action, Vicarious

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.338, Macmillan

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• The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts. This may be the vocation of man: to say "Amen" to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

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  Heart, Men, Anchors

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.80, Stanford University Press

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• Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

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  Heart, Thinking, Holy

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, Macmillan

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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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  Father, Compassion, People

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• Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

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  Taken, Men, Animal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

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  Attitude, Soul, Information

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

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• There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

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  Israel, Agony, Holocaust

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• Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

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  Wise, Self, Criticism

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.17, Macmillan

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• We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

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  Spring, Sunday, Air

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

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  Wonder, Asks

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

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• The task of life is to face sacred moments.

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  Tasks, Sacred, Faces

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• The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

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  Rejection, Arrogance, Worship

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

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  Heart, Wish, World

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.16, Macmillan

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• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

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  Questions And Answers, Want, Answering Questions

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.53, Stanford University Press

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• Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

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  Loyalty, Heart, Men

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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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  Knives, Civilization, Voice

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

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