Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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 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 HESCHELThe higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELReality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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 HESCHELLife is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELKnowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRacism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAcceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL