Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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• In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Hate
  • Know

• I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • War
  • Peace
  • Never

• I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Never
  • Child
  • Around

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Never
  • Person
  • Nothing

• Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Never

• We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • May
  • Gifts

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Never
  • Swimming
  • Awards

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Practice
  • Old

• If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • God
  • Education
  • Technology

• You never know how much time you got.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Know
  • Never

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Life
  • Never
  • Down

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• I turned. She was in a light, saffron-yellow dress of the ancient model. This was a thousand times more cruel than if she had worn nothing.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • She
  • Light
  • Model

• Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • God
  • Important
  • Past

• The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Mad

• I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Never