A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTime is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAnd yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMorally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELCelebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJust to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL