“Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. — 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
In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of… — 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
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
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 Image
