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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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