Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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In 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.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Audacious 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.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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