#abraham joshua heschel

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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel

[nesyanast]

"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. And yet being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is: how to be and how not to be?

The tendency to forget this vital question is the tragic disease of contemporary man, a disease that may prove fatal, that may end in disaster. To pray is to recollect passionately the perpetual urgency of this vital question."

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel,"No Religion is an Island", p. 264. - Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

[entheognosis]

It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel