To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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 HESCHELThere is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELYou must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL