The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for 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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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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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