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Abraham Joshua Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was active in the civil rights movement.

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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

God, Importance, Supreme

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

Art, Build, Ifs, Life, Works Of Art

Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Decay, Eternal, Failing, Spiritual, Time

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

Compassion, Name, Names, Religion, Speaks, Voice

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.

Cry, Heart, Heavy, Tell, Wish, World

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Civilization, Concern, Human, Remain, Skyscraper, Worship

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.

Art, Philosophy, Giving, Question, Outlives

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Live, Live By, Philosophy, Relevant, Wisdom

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

Bring, Pray, Praying, World

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Thinking, Asking Questions, Asking, Answers, Questions

All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

Events, Horizon, Interrelated, Relationship, Secretly, Sweep

One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.

Broken, Lack, Our World, Prayer, Tools, Unless

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

Art, Pray, Prayer, Specialized, Training

Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Deeds, Exalt, Pagan, Pagans, Prophets, Sacred Things

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.

Different, Prayer, Precisely, Self, Setting

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

Beings, Fulfillment, Humans, People, Unless

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Incredibles, Life, Phenomenal, Spiritual, Treats

Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

Energy, Finds, Law, Principles, Renewal, Unjust

To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

Real, Mean, Voice, Sense, Present, Sing

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Church, God, Greater, State, Thought Provoking, Worry

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