God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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 HESCHELAwe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBy the word of God the world was created.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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 HESCHELI have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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