This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“There is a word that is seldom said, a word for an emotion almost too deep to be expressed: the love of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The Jewish contribution to the idea of love is the conception of love of the Sabbath, the love of a day, of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words. — 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
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
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method — 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
