Quotes from Abraham Joshua Heschel
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
We worship God through our questions.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The awe of God is wisdom.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
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
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel