To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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 HESCHELIn our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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 HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL