Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSociety today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL