Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

The mind creates the abyss. The heart crosses over it. Love is the bridge.

In the face of so many wounds that hurt us and could lead to a hardness of heart, we are called to dive into the sea of prayer, which is the sea of the boundless love of God, in order to experience his tenderness

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.