Quote #5

'We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.'

More from Abraham Joshua Heschel

  1. 'He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.'
  2. 'Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.'
  3. 'God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sough…
  4. 'The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.'
  5. 'Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, …
  6. 'The focus of prayer is not the self.... It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, whi…
  7. 'One must forget many cliches in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than the extension …
  8. 'The deepest passion in any human being is the craving for meaning of human exsistence- God is the meaning beyond'

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