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 AbyssBottomConfineDiscoveredInfinite
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL EntombedFirstHopelessnessPeerStrangled
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL CheatingExploitationSingle
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL AmazementGoal
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 HESCHEL AppreciationFirstWay
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL CorruptForgeryMagnifiesRude
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL ExtolPaganProphetsSacredThing
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL ChurchProvokingSometimes
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL EnterPerishingWaiting
