More from Abraham Joshua Heschel

  1. 'The deepest passion in any human being is the craving for meaning of human exsistence- God is the meaning beyond'
  2. 'Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.'
  3. 'The focus of prayer is not the self.... It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, whi…
  4. 'The road to the sacred leads through the secular.'
  5. 'The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.'
  6. 'Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.'
  7. 'Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.'
  8. 'Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.'

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