The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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 HESCHELYou must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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 HESCHELAnd yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMuch of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL