Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
-
-
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL