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Abraham Joshua Heschel

"The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God."

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"The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God."

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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion."

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"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

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"God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are."

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"God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies."

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"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

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"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."

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"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

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"I have always believed in God."

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"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."
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"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."
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"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."
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"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge."
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"The road to the sacred leads through the secular."
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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
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"Man is a messenger who forgot the message."
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"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."
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"It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?"
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"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 others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
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