Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The primitive mind finds it hard to realize an idea without the aid of imagination, and it is the realm of space where imagination… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
“Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
