Quote #9

'The deepest passion in any human being is the craving for meaning of human exsistence- God is the meaning beyond'

More from Abraham Joshua Heschel

  1. 'The focus of prayer is not the self.... It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, whi…
  2. 'Man is a messenger who forgot the message.'
  3. 'The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.'
  4. '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.'
  5. 'Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.'
  6. 'The road to the sacred leads through the secular.'
  7. 'We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.'
  8. 'Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.'

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