Abraham Joshua HeschelWe worship God through our questions.371Truth
Abraham Joshua HeschelPrayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.341, Macmillan362Life
Abraham Joshua HeschelEvery little deed counts. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.412, Macmillan374Love
Abraham Joshua HeschelI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology, Crossroad Publishing Company352Humanity
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). A Passion for Truth, p.85, Macmillan374LoveTruth
Abraham Joshua HeschelJust to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.264, Macmillan331Politics
Abraham Joshua HeschelHe who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). Man Is Not Alone: A Philosop… ▶377Philosophy
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe task of life is to face sacred moments.366LifeTime
Abraham Joshua HeschelRemember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of … ▶311LifePhilosophyPolitics
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity. ✨ Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.377Time
Abraham Joshua HeschelWe must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light. ✨ … ▶377HopeLifePhilosophy
Abraham Joshua HeschelPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.378Love
Abraham Joshua HeschelAs civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for wan… ▶335HumanityPhilosophyPolitics
Abraham Joshua HeschelGod is either of no importance, or of supreme importance. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.270, Macmillan335Time
Abraham Joshua HeschelWe can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion, p.25, Macmill… ▶313Philosophy
Abraham Joshua HeschelIt is gratefulness which makes the soul great. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.342, Macmillan302Time
Abraham Joshua HeschelYou must build your life as if it were a work of art. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology, Crossroad Publishing Company292Life
Abraham Joshua HeschelAwe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for… ▶314Love
Abraham Joshua HeschelWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.271Politics
Abraham Joshua HeschelThis is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things. ✨ Abraham Jo… ▶348LifeLovePhilosophy
Abraham Joshua Heschel...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society,… ▶315HumanityReading
Abraham Joshua HeschelWe are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. ✨ SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence. Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Mars… ▶304ReadingThought
Abraham Joshua HeschelWhen 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; when faith becomes an h… ▶3510HopeLifeLove
Abraham Joshua HeschelThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology, Crossroad Publishing Company305Death
Abraham Joshua HeschelThings, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). Insecurity of Freedom, p.80, Macmillan338Humanity
Abraham Joshua HeschelFor many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, … ▶261Death
Abraham Joshua HeschelWe worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than be… ▶306PoliticsTime
Abraham Joshua HeschelNever 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.295LifePhilosophyPolitics
Abraham Joshua HeschelTo sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1966). The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Exist… ▶3410HumanityLifeTime
Abraham Joshua HeschelMan's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). Insecurity of Free… ▶252Politics
