Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worshi...

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other p...

Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of ...

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the a...

To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the ...

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards ...

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

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to ones...

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward histo...

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual a...

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changi...

The Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the inef...

The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to...

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive a...

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to one...

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suff...

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused ...

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human being...