The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFor living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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 HESCHELWhen faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOne of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELUltimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOnly those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL