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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBy the word of God the world was created.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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