Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity

Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.

And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.