The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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