Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.

Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.

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.