Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELCelebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
-
-
Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Faith 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 HESCHEL -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Being 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 HESCHEL -
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Life without commitment is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL






