The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Faith 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.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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In 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.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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