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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Audacious Burning Clinging Faith Heart Pilgrimage Shrine Song Waiting
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Feel Feels Eternal Passing Rush Stillness
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazement Attitude Faith History Nature Radical Religious
We worship God through our questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Animate Being Divine Margin Mystery Notice Praying Sense Wonder
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

Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Absurdity Amen Author Defiance Vocation

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