We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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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.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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