Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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We 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.
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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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