Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. …get up in the morning and look at the world in a… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked… — 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
