The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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