The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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