Abraham Cahan Quotes

Make the study of the Torah your chief occupation; speak little, but accomplish much.

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

I study Torah all the time.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

When I study and ponder moral agency and its eternal consequences, I realize that we are truly spirit children of God and therefore should act accordingly.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.

There is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah...

There are some people who are always on the run, so much so that they find it hard to fit in the study of God's word.

Passion is best spent on God; so get committed.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God's purpose should be accomplished.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to cause it to become a conflagration in a community or in a nation.

Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God's word, and don't seek the glory of this world. In doing these things, God will exalt you in this earth and you won't have to sacrifice your soul for earthly crowns that will fade.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.

When we obey God, we're not doing it for God... we're doing it for ourself. Because God takes pleasure when we're happy.

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.