Quote #11
'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.'
More from Abraham Joshua Heschel
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- 'Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.'
- 'The focus of prayer is not the self.... It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, whi…
- 'Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.'
- 'The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.'
- 'The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there…