Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.

There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.