The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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 HESCHELPrayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOne of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL