A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThose of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFor living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBeing is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELUnderstanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL