The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Every little deed counts.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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 become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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