More from Abraham Joshua Heschel

  1. 'We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.'
  2. 'The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.'
  3. 'He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.'
  4. 'The focus of prayer is not the self.... It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, whi…
  5. 'God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sough…
  6. 'The deepest passion in any human being is the craving for meaning of human exsistence- God is the meaning beyond'
  7. '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, …
  8. 'Man is a messenger who forgot the message.'

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