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Abraham Joshua Heschel was a renowned rabbi and Jewish scholar, born on January 11, 1907, and passed away on December 23, 1972. He had a profound impact on religious philosophy, Jewish theology, and moral ethics.

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“Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.”

Way Reality Given Wonder Mystery Honest Regard Response Finals Granted Radical Confrontation Grandeur Amazement

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”

Long Spiritual Hours Moral Worship Grandeur Worship God Audacity Humiliate Forfeit

Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. 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.”

“There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.”

Men Way Moments Certain Answers Consciousness Mystery Awareness Gratitude Built Grandeur Compatible Owing Reciprocate Indebtedness

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”

Spiritual Hours Moral Grandeur Audacity Forfeit

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“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.”

World Heart Made Sometimes Speak Wish Wonder Cry Heavy Made It Pregnant Filling Grandeur

Book:Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

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

Spiritual Failing Eternal Spiritual Life Decay Grandeur

Book:The Sabbath

Source: The Sabbath

About the Author

Born: January 11, 1907
Died: December 23, 1972
Known for: Rabbi
Quotes: 176

Books & Sources

Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: EssaysRelated source material

God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of JudaismRelated source material

Who is Man?Related source material

Insecurity of FreedomRelated source material

Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of ReligionRelated source material

I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual AnthologyRelated source material

The SabbathRelated source material

A Passion for TruthRelated source material

Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By GodRelated source material

No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious DialogueRelated source material

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