Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance

Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving

Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.