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Living Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
- There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to…
- The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
- Life without commitment is not worth living.
- 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…
- When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of…
- This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and…
- The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
- We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the…
- The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
- Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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