The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNew insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELYou must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL