Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits famous quotes

Our Sages refer to Prayer as "Service of the Heart". But the heart cannot work properly unless the brain functions to stimulate and control its operation. In the physiology of Prayer, too, the mind plays as vital a role as the heart.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#Prayer #Heart #Play

Even if one is familiar with the precise meaning of everything one recites, the act of worship can hardly have any significance at all unless it registers the overall message each part of our prayers is meant to convey.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#Prayer #Messages #Worship

Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#Prayer #Heart #Humility

In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#Favour #Source #Enjoy

Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#Men #Covenant #Creation

For those without faith there are no answers, for those with faith there are no questions.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#Answers

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.
-- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

#Silence #Allies #Indifference

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.