God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The primitive mind finds it hard to realize an idea without the aid of imagination, and it is the realm of space where imagination… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
“Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
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 — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share
