What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBeing points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELYet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBeing is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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 HESCHEL