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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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