To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople 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 HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be is to stand for.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAudacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith 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 HESCHELPrayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNormal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAt all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELProximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL