In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
-
-
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL






