Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.

It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.

Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method