That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThat man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worship God through our questions.
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 HESCHELFaith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBy the word of God the world was created.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThis may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELto become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen we pray, we bring G-d into the world
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRemember 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 HESCHELFaith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL