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
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We… — 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
Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons… — 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
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
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence… — 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
