More from Abraham Joshua Heschel

  1. '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.'
  2. 'Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.'
  3. 'Man is a messenger who forgot the message.'
  4. 'Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.'
  5. 'The deepest passion in any human being is the craving for meaning of human exsistence- God is the meaning beyond'
  6. '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…
  7. 'The focus of prayer is not the self.... It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, whi…
  8. 'The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.'

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