6 Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes on Faith

Abraham Joshua Heschel quotes on faith

3. 'God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

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

6. 'Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.'

7. 'The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.'

8. 'The focus of prayer is not the self.... It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, which constitute the art of prayer.... Thus, in beseeching Him for bread, there is one instant, at least, in which our mind is directed neither to our hunger nor to food, but to His mercy. This instant is prayer. We start with a personal concern and live to feel the utmost.'

11. '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.'