To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBeing points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The 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.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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