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