Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOnly those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMuch of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe awe of God is wisdom.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worship God through our questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFriendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIs not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL