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Quotes from Man's Quest For God: Studies In Prayer And Symbolism — Abraham Joshua Heschel

1907–1972 Poland

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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 hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

Man's Quest For God: Studies In Prayer And Symbolism (1954)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Abraham Joshua Heschel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.