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God Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or…
- We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a…
- We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the…
- We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
- The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
- In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too,…
- There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without…
- The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
- In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the…
- God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
- We worship God through our questions.
- God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn…
- A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to…
- 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…
- 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…
- Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
- He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
- Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it…
- God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
- To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
- A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
- The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
- God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
- Archetypes show God can be of more than one mind.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi