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Prayer Quotes by Abraham Joshua Heschel
- In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
- For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And…
- Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement…
- The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
- There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
- Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend…
- 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…
- When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
- Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the…
- Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
- Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
- The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer…
- Prayer begins where our power ends.
More Prayer Quotes
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not… — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila