The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSolitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELCelebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan is a messenger who forgot the message.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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