People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRacism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe 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 HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThen comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELInstead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFor many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL