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1. "We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
2. "The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
3. "Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?" ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
4. "Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
5. "Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?" ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
6. "There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
7. "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
8. "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
9. "A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
10. "When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
11. "Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
12. "A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
13. "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." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
14. "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." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
15. "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?" ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
16. "Man is a messenger who forgot the message." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
17. "God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
18. "Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
19. "The road to the sacred leads through the secular." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
20. "Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
21. "Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
22. "The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
23. "Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
24. "I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
25. "A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
26. "People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.Source: The Wisdom of Heschel" ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
27. "The Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide. It alone knows the route to that which is remote from experience and understanding. Neither of them is amphibious: reason cannot go beyond the shore, and the sense of the ineffable is out of place where we measure, where we weigh. We do not leave the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions. We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore. Citizens of two realms, we all must sustain a dual allegiance: we sense the ineffable in one realm, we name and exploit reality in another. Between the two we set up a system of references, but we can never fill the gap. They are as far and as close to each other as time and calendar, as violin and melody, as life and what lies beyond the last breath." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
28. "Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
29. "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." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
30. "The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
31. "...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." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

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