Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.
Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work.
The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.