The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJust to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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 HESCHELIt is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJudaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL